Clan Campbell - History, group information and links to associated sites.
About Your Scottish Name : Campbell Clan - The origins of the Campbell Clan, with scenic description and map of the ancient family lands in Scotland. Also includes the origins of Scottish surnames, photos of Scotland, a Scottish history timeline and poems of Rabbie Burns.
Breadalbane the Clan Campbell's Scotland - A brief description of the Clan Campbell history and their lands of Breadalbane in Scotland from Kilchurn Castle through Killin and on to Aberfeldy.
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Campbell Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Campbell
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Campbell Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Campbell
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Campbell Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Campbell
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Campbell If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Campbell
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Campbell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Campbell
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Campbell Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Campbell
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Campbell If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Campbell
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Campbell A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Campbell
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Campbell Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Campbell
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Campbell Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Campbell
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Campbell Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Campbell
